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... Percival , she thought it probable they might palm off Madeleine upon her with a very scanty remuneration , thus putting her to useless trouble and expense . So Madeleine , rejected in all quarters , was forced to remain at Wood- bury ...
... Percival , she thought it probable they might palm off Madeleine upon her with a very scanty remuneration , thus putting her to useless trouble and expense . So Madeleine , rejected in all quarters , was forced to remain at Wood- bury ...
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... Percival , meanwhile , was about as tired of Woodbury as was Madeleine . Little as he had cared for it formerly , he felt the loss of Agnes's devotion to him , and her intimate society . And , with the extra- ordinary inconsistency of ...
... Percival , meanwhile , was about as tired of Woodbury as was Madeleine . Little as he had cared for it formerly , he felt the loss of Agnes's devotion to him , and her intimate society . And , with the extra- ordinary inconsistency of ...
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... Percival was rather parsimonious , so he often groaned in spirit at the rapacity of the theatrical beauty ; there was sometimes a battle in his mind between his fancy for the lady and his dislike to open purse - strings . But if he ever ...
... Percival was rather parsimonious , so he often groaned in spirit at the rapacity of the theatrical beauty ; there was sometimes a battle in his mind between his fancy for the lady and his dislike to open purse - strings . But if he ever ...
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... Percival had been exceedingly injudicious in so summarily dis- charging Mrs. Percival's maid , Nancy . He had done this to gratify Madeleine , but it would have been better if he had refused to comply with her wish , and had allowed his ...
... Percival had been exceedingly injudicious in so summarily dis- charging Mrs. Percival's maid , Nancy . He had done this to gratify Madeleine , but it would have been better if he had refused to comply with her wish , and had allowed his ...
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... Percival's service ; and now that she had been obliged to leave it at such inconvenience to herself , she did not consider herself bound to hold her tongue - it was no longer her interest to do so ; therefore , when she returned to ...
... Percival's service ; and now that she had been obliged to leave it at such inconvenience to herself , she did not consider herself bound to hold her tongue - it was no longer her interest to do so ; therefore , when she returned to ...
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Agnes Alfred Percival arms asked ayah Babington beautiful better Bitter Lakes called canal Captain St Charlesfort child colour Courland Dallas dead dear death doctor Duke of Noailles Edgar Howard English Erceldoune eyes face fear feel felt French George girl hand head heard heart honour horse Idalia Kate king knew La Haye Sainte lady Lake Lake Winnipeg land of Goshen laughed Lilian live looked Lord Eskdale Madeleine Major Hargrave Manuela married Maud Maurice miles mind Miss Slingsby morning mother nature never night nurse O'Flynn once Panama papa Paris party passed passion Percival Phaulcon poor replied River rose round Russian hound Saint Amand Saxe Seilhac silence smile speak tell Théâtre-Français Theresa things thought tion told Trevanion village voice wife wild woman Woodbury words young
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Página 436 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Página 356 - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die. All...
Página 290 - ... so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers, who, without being duly listed and enrolled, do infinite mischief to those who are so unlucky as to fall into their hands.
Página 417 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 420 - To withdraw myself from myself (oh. that cursed selfishness !) has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all ; and publishing is also the continuance of the same object, by the action it affords to the mind, which else recoils upon itself.
Página 163 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Página 440 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Página 166 - This tremendous explosion was followed by a silence not less awful : the firing immediately ceased on both sides ; and the first sound which broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling into the water from the vast height to which they had been exploded.
Página 161 - Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime, As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene, And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak!
Página 161 - Drew backward as before the offending part. The reeking entrails next he tore away, And to his meagre mastiffs made a prey. The pale assistants on each other stared, With gaping mouths for issuing words prepared : The still-born sounds upon the palate hung, And died imperfect on the faltering tongue.